POPE FRANCIS REGARDS HOLODOMOR AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S WORST GENOCIDES

03.05.13

A report carried yesterday by a Ukrainian news site, Express Online, provides a number of extracts from a book written by Pope Francis back in 2010, "About the heavens and about Earth".

In it the then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio comments on the systematic liquidation of various nationalities and with specific reference to the Holodomor he said: "People who suffered massacres and persecution - as they did during the three biggest genocides of the last century, the Armenians, Jews and Ukrainians - struggled for their freedom."